GLITCH

Sinister, Ignited

"Well, I'll be damned."

I'm here, still fighting against three Griffins. They're not that hard, but considering the condition my other self has given to me, just blasting them with my Tech Gloves' capabilities would never lead this battle to come to fruition.

"Squawk!"

"Squawk!"

"Squawk!"

"Oh come on, I could hear you from miles away! Stop screeching!"

I kept on evading while trying to adapt to what my other self said. However, there is a teeny weeny little problem.

"How did I do it before and yet I couldn't do it now?"

"Squawk!"

"Argh! You guys are persistent!"

Now, what am I lacking?

Wait, is it because I don't have my other me helping me out? Is that how it is? Well, she did say that she often merges with me especially in battles, so I came to that assumption.

She can't answer it for now though. She's not here.

"Squawk!"

"Just tone down your voice! Argh."

How do I imbue my attacks without guidance?

Ugh...

Anyway, let's try this one more time.

I'll imagine my Mantle's capabilities before we got merged and see if I could pull it off.

•••

"Hah! What a weak creature!"

"Grr..."

"What's that? Is that all you got? Come on, your first form was a joke, but this second form of yours is just plain stupid."

I've never expected this guy to be so weak. I mean, it's already out. It's in its second form. Overall, he's more or less looks like a genie but with a complete lower part and is muscular.

I'll raise my rage points more, and see to it that it will taste a lovely game of hell in this isolated space.

Based on what I've seen this time, the second form comes with changes like a new set of good ol' overpowering skills and buffed stats. I wonder if this would take forever?

KNIGHT OF THE FALLEN BLOOD Level 647 (Second Form)

HP: 900 000 MP: infinite

Strength: 9 999

Dexterity: 100

Constitution: 99 999

Intelligence: 9 999 999

SKILLS:

[Conceal / ACTIVE] - Actively conceals the user's stats and skills.

[Beam Force / PASSIVE] - All attacks became beams, melee strikes will shoot beams.

[Life Siphon / PASSIVE] - A skill that allowed the user to drain the foe's HP

[False Strike / ACTIVE] - A skill that destroys the target if it misses

[Locust Swarm / ACTIVE] - Summons locusts to attack

[Doom Rage / ACTIVE] - A skill that toughens up the user but has its HP slowly drained

[Self-Destruct / ACTIVE] - Sacrifice and explode, obliterating everything within a considerable radius

[Shared Fatality / PASSIVE] - The last fatal hit has a 70% chance to be returned and damage the user by 30% of the damage

[Fallen Forge / PASSIVE] - Each damage dealt with the bearer of the skill would be given with extra armor.

I looked at it and saw that it has a new skill now. Sweet. That doesn't matter though.

I'll kill it no matter what.

I leaped upwards to deliver an attack to the air. The enemy, seemingly in its gaseous form, used [Locust Swarm] to fend me off.

"What a bunch of weaklings. Don't come near me. [Gravity]."

A dense gravitational force forces the locusts to stay on the ground and they go squished left and right. Even the enemy got affected and was doing its might just to retain its form against the enemy.

Oh. A simple [Gravity] trick would work that well? Nice.

"What's wrong? Can't move? That's a pity. Here, let me lend you a hand."

I removed my skill's effect on it to allow it to move. The Glitch started acting strangely and unleashes a barrage of punches, each of it was infused with the same two skills [Life Siphon] and [False Strike]. I guess I thought I couldn't follow it and might end up injuring me.

It's not enough though.

"Burst Shot, Two hundred Percent!"

A blast with twice the firepower seized the opportunity to parry all the strikes and made that genie-like Glitch flinched.

"This isn't a good form of entertainment yet. Come on. Entertain me more."

I know it's weird to taunt a Glitch, but it's even weirder for me to make such a prideful assertion.